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While love is difficult to quantify with facts and figures, research suggests certain qualities are deemed more attractive than others. For example, one study found that brunettes with brown eyes are far more popular on dating sites, while another named teaching as the ideal female profession.

Given our fascination with these surface observations, it's only natural that researchers would delve into a far more personal field that can influence attraction: sexual history.
A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Research suggests the number of partners you've had could be perceived as attractive—or a massive turn-off. So how does your number fare? According to the study's findings, people are willing to start a relationship with someone who has had two to three sexual partners—any more or less, and you lose appeal.

Interestingly, those polled admitted to having far more relationships than the so-called ideal number. According to Psychology Today, women had about six former partners, and men had slept with an average of eight people.

If two to three sexual partners seems like a low figure, it's worth noting that the study was conducted on college students under the age of 25. The findings are consistent with other relationship studies that suggest promiscuity and a lack of sexual experience are equally unattractive.

In the words of the author, "The message here seems to be, don't sleep around too much—or if you do, at least don't announce it to the world."


Source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1nhvi8/:13hK-ssVh:Tj.9w2xl/www.mydomaine.com/attractive-traits

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The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries(MFM) is a Pentecostal organisation founded in Yaba, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria in 1989, now with churches in several English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. It was founded by Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya (DKO).

Deeper Christian Life Ministry (also known as Deeper Life Bible Church) is a non-denominational Christian Church with its international headquarters, Deeper Life Bible Church Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria. It is overseen by the General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi. It is a Holiness-Pentecostal church.

MFM puts emphasis on warfare against spiritual enemies, while Deeper Life puts emphasis on holiness.

I discovered that most MFM members I personally know are former Deeper Life members. Why?

Why are Deeper Life members leaving to join MFM? Is there anything MFM offers, that Deeper Life doesn’t offer?


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The Worst-Kept Secret About Mark Zuckerberg Is That He's *Not* Actually A Coding Genius

Mark Zuckerberg is not a "programming prodigy" — that is the verdict of a discussion thread for programmers on the question-and-answer website Quora.

And Zuckerberg's peers don't place him in the uppermost tier of skilled coders, according to TopCoder, a site where coders improve and rank their skills. He's only in the third level.

Most people have a vague idea of the the story of Facebook's origin: It was initially built by Zuckerberg in a week when he was a student at Harvard as a sort of revenge prank on the university after authorities there banned his "Facemash" web site, which let people compare and rate photos of other students based on their looks.

To people outside the software business, that story makes Zuck seem like a computer wizard — he created Facebook in a week!

In fact, Zuckerberg majored in psychology, not computer science. The initial version of "The Facebook" website was not particularly sophisticated. And his peers in the business are ranked much more highly than he is as a coder. Zuckerberg's success has more to do with his personal persistence, hard work, a good idea and luck than it is Zuckerberg's coding prowess.

While he's clearly a skilled software engineer and incredibly talented businessman, he's not a "prodigy". The issue of Zuck's relative level of talent as a programmer came up when one Quora user asked how the Facebook CEO trained himself to be a coding genius.

One commentator in the Quora discussion cites TopCoder, where hackers can get their skills rated.

Zuckerberg's profile on the site is at the "green" level, which is third tier of coding skills. Adam D'Angelo — the former CTO of Facebook who was pivotal in its creation — is in the top level, "red." (The ranking goes grey, green, blue, yellow, red). In fact, it recently emerged Zuckerberg apparently wrote that his former colleague "taught him most of what he knows".

David Roth is the Quora conversationalist who calls the question "flawed". Roth mentions other coders who he believes are real prodigies in the sector. He talks about Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, who he says "wrote the loader for Microsoft Basic for the Altair computer while flying to Albuquerque."

Roth adds: "Note that this was in 1975; there weren't laptops that you could take on a plane then. Allen was writing machine code on a piece of paper with a pencil, and he created a loader program that worked. That's pretty amazing."

He also talks about Margaret Hamilton: "She wrote the code for the Apollo space program. The sheer scope of that project and the hardware limitations she was dealing with are staggering. She had finished this code by the time she was 31."

Scores of others concur. One Quora user remarks: "I don't think he is a programming prodigy. He was (and is) an ambitious, driven young guy who shipped the right product at the right time, got smart people to work for him from the start and learned to be the CEO of a big company. Not a small feat, but he didn't need to be a prodigy to achieve it."

As another of Quora's community adds: "Zuckerberg is not a programming prodigy. The application he wrote was not unique, and not all that well-made - that is, not a brilliant, exemplary piece of programming. We can leave it to IT historians to come to a definitive answer for why he was so successful, but my belief is that he happened to strike on the right combination of timing, marketing, and features in a fairly crowded space."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-is-not-actually-a-coding-genius-2015-1

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Key logger is turned on and data syncing of all your files to their company servers is also turned on by default. Most users will not know how to turn it off or don't have the time.

I should disclose - I work in Microsoft, as a developer. It is a pain for me to follow all rules for collecting of personal data. Phone has your location, but we cannot use it to suggest commute unless we disclose that we use your location.

If we collect our application usage (how many times you use a feature, for example) or if we send crash data, we need to strip all personal data. It is a pain. We have mandatory training for dealing with customer data.

Finally Microsoft wants to make money (I am interested too, to get salary). The worst nightmare is to accidentally collect and then leak personal data, so we take it very seriously. For example, Windows 10 has a feedback tool where people can describe their problems. People sometimes put their name and e-mail addresses and, since we want to share this feedback with device manufactures, we need to clear personal data from the feedback. This is a huge problem and there is a whole project dedicated to this, but finally they hired contractor to do it manually. It did cost a lot of money.


The bottom line we use personal data (for example Exchange servers keep a lot of e-mails ), but take special efforts to protect it. For example, I work on project that automatically checks you into meetings. We have to take special extra steps to make sure your data is stored properly and that delays our project.

Sorry for long mail, but the bottom line - if my code leaks personal data and then people sue Microsoft, Microsoft loses money. That would not be fun for me.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-Microsoft-Windows-10-basically-a-spying-operating-system

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I don't know if Nigerians are the smartest people on earth but they sure are smart, Igbo folk in particular. To give an example; back in 1981 I was hiring staff in Warri.

A young (17) Igbo fellow called Sam asked for a job. He was as short as me and very slim so not suitable for laboring work. He was totally full of beans so I hired him anyways to help me with line testing gear.

Sam had had just four years of primary education. About a week in he asked me why I liked the small numbers on the test gear and did not like the big ones. So sitting there under a mangrove I explained voltage, current, Ohms law and the problem with contaminated connections.

About an hour later Sam comes back with a drawing and a handful of batteries. He wanted to know whether there was a way to put the batteries in the geophones so as to push the signal through even with poor connections.

I was gobsmacked. An hour after hearing of Ohm's law for the first time he'd dreamt up the concept of a pre-amplifier. I had an electronics workshop so I took Sam into it and started with the math and electronics. He lived in that lab. He went from Euclid to Leibniz in less than a month. Six weeks in he was using spectrum analysers to control inter-modulation between multiple radio transmitters.

In the eleven months we worked/learnt together Sam got to about associate degree level. He set up an electronics store after.


Some damn smart folk in the Delta.
Pat

Source: https://www.quora.com/Are-Nigerians-the-smartest-people-to-walk-the-earth-Why

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There have been a lot of comments on the benefits of reading a lot of books. This is a question about the opposite side.

My husband was the only child banned from the reading corner at school. When I met him I could not understand that story: it seemed ridiculous and unfair. Who would ban a child for reading in a world where so few children read at all?

But having known him and been married to him for a while I actually can understand how this can have its drawbacks: he can escape into books for hours, days. Sometimes he will not notice what I say to him and will recede from the outside world so completely that life threatens to pass him by.

This is not to say anything against my husband who is the most wonderful, honest and caring person that I am blessed to spend my life with and whose passion for reading has made him wise and intelligent; it is simply to say that even with reading one needs to make a choice and a compromise.

I too am a lover of books and of the escape that reading and day-dreaming offer; and I too have to force myself to come back into the world every now and then in order not to lose the precious moments in my own life.


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-drawbacks-of-reading-a-lot-of-books

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This “age doesn’t matter” stuff is nonsense. No, 34 is by no means too old, but you’re going to be 40 when you’re done (roughly), having lost 5–6 years of prime earning. Oh, and the personal cost; there’s always a personal cost. You are now 40 and Dr. Question Asker! Congrats. If you’re in the sciences and want a treasured position at a research university, you’ll spend the next 4–10 years as a postdoc. In some fields, like computer science, the opportunities are high, but that’s not most fields. It’s not completely unreasonable to start as an associate professor in, say, biology, at the age of 50, but then you have six years to prove yourself (tougher at some places than others) and warrant tenure. But you’re awesome and tenure is granted. Great! Now you’re 57 (the tenure evaluation process alone takes a year), so you have maybe a decade before you start to think about retiring. And that’s not the worst-case scenario. The odds are not far from 1:2 that you’ll finish. Most people leave of their own accord, but often after completing 2+ years of coursework and 1+ years of research and deciding they don’t like research and can’t do it anymore. And while things could go better, there’s no guarantee of tenure at a research university (single digit percentages of PhDs get tenure-track jobs at research universities and get tenure).

You could potentially go to a teaching school. I think I will be forever grateful that I did. If all works out, I might have tenure and still be in my 40s. I don’t make a ton, but I’m also nowhere near poverty.

If you’re in the humanities… well, you’ll go back to whatever you were doing before the PhD, or possibly try to eke out a living as an adjunct.

Am I discouraging you from going? No! Well, sorta… I did not get good advice. Most people don’t. I don’t per se regret my decision and I love my career, but I wish I had known more. I wish the system treated people better. And I’m thankful I’m in computing, where jobs are plentiful. I know some people who make good livings helping fellow PhDs find jobs/careers outside of academia, and trust me, these people are earning their keep.

Make sure you have long talks with people who’ve been through the process, didn’t start within 5 years of undergrad, and are in your discipline. This needs to include people who didn’t finish, or else you’ll have selection bias (you’ll only get one side). There are plentiful discussion boards to find people and info. Make the decision, but make the decision from an informed perspective. If this is right for you, it can be wonderful (and horrible, sometimes).

If you are 50 and starting a PhD full-time with the intent of changing careers? I can’t say that I think that’s a good idea. So go forth and decide within the next decade.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-too-late-to-start-a-PhD-at-34

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To be sincere, the man is a psychopath. Besides, he's old enough to go to jail....




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The way it works is quite clever.

5V from the computer’s USB port is used to charge high voltage capacitors through a DC-DC converter up to a predetermined value, something in the order of 100V or higher.

Once the caps are charged, a switch then dumps the stored charge back through the USB’s signal lines and the cycle repeats until 5V is no longer available through the computer’s USB port, indicating the host computer has been damaged - dumping the high voltage back into the 5V line will damage the killer device itself; not a very smart thing to do, hence the signal lines.

How much damage it will do to a computer will be determined by how protected its USB port is - in some cases the motherboard traces will act as a fuse, or the USB controller will fry, and in severe cases the motherboard will be damaged.

A few clamping diodes will actually be adequate to protect the system, but proper ESD protection takes space that’s simply not available in modern slim-and-small devices.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-do-USB-killers-work


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I can give a personal answer, having held a large piece of pure uranium years ago.

In my teens (in the early 1970's) I was in a tech oriented Explorer Scouts troop. We met at the offices of a defense contractor. I noticed a cylindrical paper weight of dull gray metal on a desk, and at random reached to pick it up. To my surprise, it felt glued down.

With some additional effort I picked it up and marveled at how heavy it was. It was about the size of a soda can, and weighed maybe 15 lbs (7 kg). A bemused engineer saw us passing it around and explained it was a piece of "depleted" Uranium - that is uranium which is nearly pure U238, with much of the shorter half life fissile U235 removed.

U238 has a half life of 4.46 billion of years, which means that very few of its atoms decay in a short time, and when they do decay, they emit alpha particles. Alpha particles from the interior of the lump cannot pass through the dense material, and the small fraction emitted from the surface cannot even penetrate skin.

No one, including the adult engineers in charge of the group, expressed the slightest worry. I don't even think it was suggested we should wash our hands. So, now it is 45 years later, and I'm still here to tell you about it, and as far as I know so are all my fellow troop members.....


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-touched-uranium


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Can Queen Elizabeth cook, and if so, is there a dish she cooks well?

She does not cook.

There was a special, I think on PBS about her, and the most she did once in awhile, which brought all the staff into shock is when she serves herself something.

It means that the dish is brought to her, set up, but it’s more than one serving, and she puts food on her plate.

This is as close to the kitchen as she gets.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Can-Queen-Elizabeth-cook-and-if-so-is-there-a-dish-she-cooks-well

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This is a conversation a friend of mine had with him on an airplane once.

Shady: Aren't you gonna ask for an autograph?

Friend: What?

Shady: An autograph? You want one?

Friend: Who are you?

Shady: *laughing* I'm Eminem!

Friend: And I'm skittles?

She had no idea who he was! Though the constant harassment from fans has steeled him to much personal interaction, he is never angry without reason. Friends of his such as Proof of D12, Dr Dre and Xzibit have described him as loyal and clever with a wicked sense of humour.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-meet-Eminem-in-person

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The most effective ways to see a person's true personality is in 2 ways:

1. observe them in times of adversity (or high stress)

2. watch what they spend their money on

1.) I once had a coworker who best described would be something between Princess Diana and Hyacinth Bucket from the British series "Keeping up appearances". She'd carry herself with her nose up in the air, considering herself to be better than any of us, and would often tell anecdotes from her previous "very prestigious" job, insinuating that she is somebody, and we are nobodies.

Then one day she got herself a car, it wasn't new, but it made up for it in flashiness, and a certain "high quality" symbol on the front of the hood. She parked it in front of the office doors: once, so we wouldn't miss it going in, and second, so our low-life cars would not cramp the style of her 4-wheeled beauty.

At the end of the shift we all waked together to the parking lot, and............... her car wouldn't start! Golly, she jumped out, started yelling, cussing, throwing the F word left and right, kicking the tires and jumping up and down in anger like an insane person. That display was priceless! The mask was off, and we saw what's behind it, and let me tell you, it wasn't pretty! For those in our group who felt her belittling bite extra hard, it was like "Christmas in July".

2.) People spend their money on what they love most. If I were to look at your credit card statement, I could tell you right away where your life's priorities are (you can d that for yourself).
A person can tell you a thousand times that they have a big heart for the less fortunate, and their main charges are clothing, shoes, handbags and restaurants, believe the statement and not their words. ''For where your treasure (money) is, there your heart will be also''. So show me what kind of treasures you spend your money on, and I'll tell you what/who your true love is.

And that's how you take a peak behind the masks of a person, in order to see their true personality.

Cheers!

Angie


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-effective-way-to-see-a-persons-true-personality


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How do teenagers afford these crazy expensive phones and computers these days?

I'm 17 years old, and have an iPhone 7 and am currently building a PC that will end up costing ~$3500.

So how do I afford it?

Most people will say their parents, but mine have taught me that if I want something, I need to work for it. So I got a job.

I work 20–30 hours a week, mostly after school and sometimes on the weekend. I make $10.10 an hour, pretty good considering the minimum wage is $7.25. I enjoy my works, sometimes it can be a little stressful to balance it with school but I deal with it as best as I can. I maintain all A and B grades, so they do not suffer because of work.

And I get to afford the things I want without the help of my parents.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-do-teenagers-afford-these-crazy-expensive-phones-and-computers-these-days

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Stock is clearly down, and the company is headed by a supply chain guy. New products are incremental -- look ma, new colors! new sizes!. Further, being married to an ex-apple employee, I was surprised by the constant anti-intellectual, anti-research culture of the company, and now it seems to have caught up. While Apple is still immensely profitable, they've yet to come out with a blockbuster product lately. Further, knowing Steve Jobs from a distance, I can see him being just the kind of egomaniac who will feel happy if Apple died after him, showing the world how important Steve Jobs was to the world. Did he design the organizational structure for 'planned demise'?

Answer:

When I accepted a job offer at Apple this year, some friends were surprised I did so. I've been getting all sorts of comments and questions such as:
"Apple passed its prime. Why waste time at a company that has nowhere to go but down?"
"Without Steve Jobs, Apple won't be innovating anymore."
"There will never be another big opportunity like iPhone."
"Will Apple stock reach $700 ever again?"

Since I'm starting my Apple job soon and don't yet have any inside knowledge, I'll describe why I joined Apple and what I think the future holds. Once I start work, I'm going ninja stealth mode, so this is all you'll get from me.

Apple singularly focuses on creating products that delight customers so much that they're willing to pay above-market prices and feel it's absolutely worth it. It's like Noma (arguably the most creative restaurant in the world) versus McDonalds. People go to McD because it tastes ok and is really cheap. People go to Noma for the most mind-blowing culinary experience money can buy. I chose Apple because I want to spend my next 10 years developing products and operational practices that elevate society's standards for business. Was it really necessary to build computers out of highly recyclable aluminum? 100% renewable energy at all data centers? Accessibility features in Mac OS that most people don't need? No, but it was the right thing to do. Apple pushes the envelope because it has people who care about this kind of stuff.

Ultimately I accepted my offer because my interviewer (and future boss) was willing to take a chance with me knowing that I have passion and high standards but little direct experience for the job. There's nothing untouchable at Apple, he said (besides the vision of the industrial design team), and it's up to me to decide where in the company or supply chain innovation is needed. The people I've met at Apple have such intense professionalism that I wouldn't be surprised to find a piece of Steve Job's DNA in their genes.

With a week before I start my job, I've come to realize that Apple's future depends not on its ability to make elegant products, but rather its ability to create a platform for the 10,000 best developers to reach and serve customers via apps. The million developers out in the world can provide more and better content and services than any singular company can hope to produce, therefore the future winner is the one that can serve developers the most. As long as Apple makes the most delightful hardware and software environment, and prioritizes ease of apps development/delivery, then the future is bright. As you might know, software and media piracy is a huge problem in Asia, therefore a closed apps ecosystem like Apple's could be the only way for small Asian consumer software and media businesses to make profit sustainably there. International app stores will unleash the world's creative talent.

Future blockbusters will come in the form of new platforms through which developers can touch our lives. An iTV would enable apps for the living room. An iWatch would enable apps for the body, with its usefulness for developers pending on how many different biometric sensors can be crammed into a watch to estimate blood sugar, hydration, stress, etc. An iPhone/iPod/iPad would enable car apps once there's a way for the devices to talk with your car. Through an app, your car could automatically arrange an oil change appointment for you when needed, taking into account where you live and your schedule for the week. If I stay at Apple long term, I intend to bring apps and robotics to the home kitchen to help people manage their groceries and cook healthy meals effortlessly.

That said, I don't have any particular advice for Apple stock. It might not be until 2014 or much later for the next sensational hit to happen, so investors will need patience. The long term growth potential is certainly there, but success will take flawless execution.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-Apple-a-dying-company

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The end is that, he'll end up having many mistresses, and possibly more wives.

These are nothing to me but fallacies.



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If you are going to ask a question, it is improper to disable comments.

If you just wanted to write an opinion piece, the title would have been more accurately phrased in the form of a statement.

I used to be a social butterfly. Always went out on Friday and Saturday night. Lived with my wife and the girlfriend we shared. We went out partying every weekend and took many vacations. I had a group of 5 close friends that I saw almost daily. Then I moved to a place where I knew no one. I was used to the big Apple, NYC, where people came in all sizes and flavors. I now live in rural America surrounded by cows and horses. Most people around here are from the Mid West. They long for the good old days. Many do not curse and will not watch a movie where they curse or there is even partial nudity.

As someone who others have told is intelligent, my biggest problem is finding others who share my eclectic tastes. The guys around here want to play golf, drink, swim, drink, eat and drink. In NYC I always found guys into the same things I am but not where I live now, so I have been a loner for the last 4 years. No friends. My wife had friends so we socialize with them but I do not hang out with them without her.

My sense of humor and type of conversations I like are unlike theirs. They want to just talk about the weather, golf, where to go to eat and normal stuff. I like deep conversations about meaningful topics. Good example today. We were talking about new cars and how driverless cars are already here. I made the comment that cars that drive themselves will face ethical questions and therefore so will the software programs that drive them. For instance, what if your car is heading towards a group of school girls who darted across the road. The car has two options. The first is to plow into the girls to save your life or turn the car sharply and hit a tree at 60 miles per hour. What does it do? Would your choice be different if you had your wife and kids in the car and it was either them or some strangers? Do you risk crashing into one car to avoid hitting another?

As soon as I brought this up someone said they never thought about that and abruptly changed the conversation by saying that they wished they had driver side cameras too. I asked why wasn’t the mirror good enough as it can see as well as the camera and too many screens to look at would be distracting. Once again the conversation went to something else. I could not draw anyone into a conversation that required them to think deeply or logically. This is why I am a loner.

People seem to think there is something wrong with people who want to be alone. Like we have some psychological problem. I am very happy without being obligated to others or having to make compromises as to what to do when we go out with them. I do not need to be called up to drive someone somewhere when I want to relax or be brought into or subjected to their drama. Every hobby I have I can do alone. I do not need others to enjoy any of my hobbies. I have the internet to communicate with people who are interested in the same things I am in special interest forums. I have my TV and between Cable and Internet channels, more stuff that I can ever watch. I like my music and my work. I am very happy and can do whatever the hell I want to. I do not have to go out just to not make someone mad at me. I do not have to be careful not to slight one friend over another. I do exactly like I want to do and nothing that I do not want to do.

You are not just “intelligent” you seem to be HSP, I am, bumped into an article by chance two weeks ago and it has changed the way I see life a lot. By the way you should have enabled comments.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-intelligent-people-like-to-be-alone

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This is my viewpoint, and if it doesn’t tally with yours, you may not find this article useful. I’m not a politician… This is just my observation.

Why are some people not happy that Buhari is now president? After all, he was elected in a free and fair election. It was because the media helped Buhari by giving him bad image during elections campaigns. They tried to show negative facts and things about him, especially during his military rule.

One good example of the negative news was AIT, that was spreading bad information about him. I would wonder why they dedicated long hours of documentaries to discredit him (someone who ruled for less than one year).

Clearly, many news agencies were biased against Buhari, while some spoke well of him. Most of the things they said about Buhari was really wrong. No wonder, the press is the most potent evil on this planet.

Some people were shocked that Buhari won the elections. One of the greatest factors that helped him achieve victory was the negative news that was spread about him. People of AIT and other enemies didn’t realize they were helping him to gain people’s sympathy, when they were trying to give him a bad image.

This should be a lesson to us. People spread bad info about Oyedepo, Adeboye, Joshua, etc. yet they go on from success to success; from strength to strength. Osupa sings rubbish about Pasuma, and Pasuma is just gaining more and more popularity. People speak ill of Linda Ikeji, Kim Kardashian, and yet they’re moving higher and higher.

Certain people who didn’t want to vote for Buhari decided to vote for him, simply because the press was spreading negative news about him. This is also the major reason why Trump won the US presidential elections: the Press was biased against Trump, and they helped him gain lots of popularity, without knowing it. The press contributed to his victory.

It was like the issue of a man who’s trying to bad-mouth another man, in the presence of a pretty girl, so that the girl can be discouraged. The girl still goes ahead to marry that bad-mouthed man.

LESSON: When people speak ill of you, when they spread bad information about you, when they slander you, they’re simply helping you to achieve your goals, your popularity, and your progress.

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In connection with his employment with Facebook, Mr. Zuckerberg receives a $1 per year salary, no bonus and no stock-based compensation, in his position as CEO of Facebook.

During the latest fiscal year, his W-2 was 'dinged' for $610K, representing the value of his personal use of the company aircraft, but he never received that amount as a cash payment.

Very likely, he also has other income from investments, but those figures are not a matter of public record.


Source: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Mark-Zuckerberg-actually-make-in-a-year

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This happened when I was 10, around 7 years ago. I was dumb and naïve.

One day my uncle (chacha) came to our home from village and his marriage was due in a month or so. There was a happy ambiance and the elders were talking about the arrangements.

I was getting bored so I asked him for his phone, I wanted to play, of course. He gave it to me. But soon I realised that he didn't have anything even remotely interesting in his phone so I started scrolling through his gallery. Sure enough, all I found was stupid mirror selfies and pictures of bikes.

But then at the end of it, there was a folder named X, I opened it. Another folder. I opened that. Another folder! This went for around 10 folders and finally what this 10 year old girl saw, shocked her. Hundreds of pictures of naked women! Not secretly taken though, these women were posing. (He probably got em from the internet?)

But in all honesty, I was more amused than shocked. I had seen naked women before (horrible memory, lol) but never thought that they let themselves get photographed! So after going through all the pictures I went to the room where all of the elders were seated and showed the images to each one of them as I laughed hysterically.

I vividly remember, at first my uncle didn't realise what I was showing to the others. When my mother's turn came to see the pictures, she looked at the phone, then at me, then at uncle, then back at the phone, and calmly said, “I don't understand what you're showing, give the phone back to him.”

This was the moment his eyes widened and he realised what I'd done.

Needless to say, a very awkward silence followed and my mom doesn't like him any longer. He is infamously tagged the black sheep of the family.

Back then I felt stupid because my mom somehow didn't find it funny. But now, I feel stupid because damn it, I was a jerk and what I did was embarrassing on so many levels!

Yeah, I was a nice kid. *Wink*

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-embarrassing-thing-you-found-on-someones-phone

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Is it possible to create gold from scratch?

YES, it is absolutely possible to create gold from scratch. In fact, it is surprisingly easy to make it if you know what you’re doing.

You will need the following ingredients before you can create it:

2 neutron stars, so dense that the mass of New York State is contained in the tip of a pinhead. These are stars that have collapsed under their own gravity but are not quite dense enough to form a black hole.

Mash them together at massive speed and gravity, so that they explode in an intense burst of radiation that can be seen right across the galaxy.

For a few seconds you will be able to create a few TONS of gold from scratch!
So you see, given the right ingredients it’s very easy to create gold from scratch!

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-create-gold-from-scratch

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Many do not take kindly to the thought of eye boogers — those hard bits of crust that you wipe from your eyes when you wake up each morning. But you'd miss them pretty dearly if they weren’t there.

The complex wonders that are your eyes are coated by a three-layer tear film: the glycocalyx layer, made of mucus, which directly coats the cornea; a very thin, watery layer that helps spread the tears; and an oily layer made of meibum, which is secreted consistently by about 50 glands around the top rim of your eyelid and 25 glands lining the bottom one.

Eye boogers — technically known as rheum or gound but commonly referred to as sleepies or eye gunk — are a cocktail that is mostly meibum, with some parts mucus from the glycocalyx layer and other parts dirt and debris that you catch in your eye during the day.

Normally, you blink debris away during the day — and the older you are, the more you fight eye junk. Adults blink at a rate of about 20 per minute; babies only do it about twice per minute. (There are some studies as to why younger people are less inclined to bat an eye; one notes that babies have a "smaller eye opening and a thinner layer of fats and tear film," though what mattered more as far as blinking was concerned was whether the baby was engaged with an object or activity.)

Blinking protects the eyes by squeezing the meibomian gland, letting loose the oily secretion, and mixing all layers together to lubricate the entire system with the complex lipid and protein solution that makes up your tears. The act of fluttering your eyelids is also said to give your brain a miniature rest.

When you sleep, your eyes remain shut, and as you rest, a mixture of debris is free to gather. The main meibum component, which is a liquid consistency at during the daytime, dries up because your body temperature drops slightly at night — enough to turn those tear-protecting oils into a solid.

Meibum has the important job of keeping your tear film from evaporating, and it also prevents tears from constantly streaming down your face all day (unless you're highly attuned to your emotions). Without sufficient meibum, you're left with dry eyes, redness, struggling vision, and an impressive used tissue mountain. Be thankful for the eye boogers.


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I can tell you for sure the soldiers guarding The Queen will beat you to a bloody pulp.

I recall an incident back in the 1980s when H.M. was returning on horseback from some parade, and some random nutter just lunged forward. The nearest soldier just went Full Metal Ballistic at the nutter and tackled him down as flat as a pancake. Then the constables came along and flattened him a bit more.

The rest of the onlookers were as described — looking on with approval.

You’ll have to search the Internet for that incident — it’s in the news at the time.

The newspapers later interviewed the soldier. If memory serves, he was quoted as saying that he “felt that raw anger” at seeing H.M. on the verge of being attacked.

I don’t think it would be much different today.


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-someone-spat-in-Queen-Elizabeths-face

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A former close friend of mine did something that I only found out about after the baby was born in January. She had an IUD in and took it out without telling anyone. Then she got the father drunk and they had sex and well…nine months later a beautiful baby girl was born.

She told me originally that the IUD fell out and she had no idea. Then she told me she was happy she got pregnant because she would get another kid that would love her for 18 more years. It was actually really creepy the way she said it. She has a 16-year-old daughter already with a different man and her daughter hates her. I’ve been even closer friends with her daughter (she’s like a sister to me) and she is leaving to go live with her dad in the fall because of how terrible her mom is to her.

She was using the fact that she had 85% custody to trick her daughter into staying with her but finally they had a hearing the other day and now my friend can get out of that toxic environment for good. Mom’s still guilting her though..says if something happens to the baby then it’s her fault, how could she be so selfish to leave her with a newborn, etc etc. News flash: that newborn wouldn’t be there if she hadn’t lied and secretly planned this pregnancy.

I know I’m getting off topic but I just want to explain why getting pregnant was a horrible thing to do. First, she did it purely out of her own self-interests. Second, she deceived someone who thought she was on birth control. Lastly, she is a drug addict. She abuses barbituates, benadryl, and benzodiazepines and I only realized this when her new baby came out and started going through withdrawals. The nurses found a lot of pills in her purse that she was taking on top of the meds they were giving her and CYS was called. I found two more bottles of benadryl that they missed later.

She also is faking that she has MS which is even more horrible but I won’t go into it. Basically, she gets so high on drugs and abuses her prescriptions to the point where she will fall asleep while in the middle of a sentence, her texts look more like “fdjhgwega” and make no sense, and she also falls asleep in the middle of taking care of and while holding her new baby. She’s pretty much forced her other daughter (my friend) to be the mom. My friend has missed school to take care of the baby and hasn’t been able to be a teen anymore. CYS and police have been called so many times and it’s infuriating how they are so clueless.

Anyway……. sneakily getting pregnant is a terrible and selfish idea because you are not only hurting yourself in the long-run. It takes two to get pregnant and once the baby comes, you better have your life together or it gets rough really quick. Babies are not accessories and they should never be put in a situation where they could be hurt or even killed.

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-are-sneaky-ways-to-get-pregnant

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This is good.... Omo Baba Olowo.



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There is some discussion of bringing felony charges against Hillary Clinton. What is the nature of these arguments and how likely is it to occur?

Donald Trump said if he got elected she would be in jail!

Answer:
For all the crimes she has actually committed? She will, as Joss Whedon says, be deservedly sentenced to hard labour in a room that doesn’t even have any corners. Which is precisely what she deserves at this point.

If you have evidence she has actually committed a crime, please forward it to either the FBI or the Republican Party. They’ve been trying for years on a wide range of topics to prove she’s committed a crime and they haven’t found anything significant yet.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Will-Hillary-Clinton-go-to-jail

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“Americans are fat, stupid, racist, war lovers.” Remarks like this are all over the internet, on FaceBook, YouTube, even on Quora, and are often left by Europeans. Why are you guys so judgmental? In a nation of 320 million not all people are the same or fit stereotypes the world has about Americans.


ANSWER:

Really?

I will never forget the night I was with my students in the Youth Hostel in Nuremberg and we started talking with a group of same-aged Germans.

“Where you guys from?” they asked in English.

“Minnesota,” my students answered.

“Jesse Ventura. How do you like your governor?” they asked.

One of the more observant of my students asked this: “How would you know that? Most of us couldn’t even name the current leader of Germany and you can come up with the name of our governor?”

Jesse Ventura was the opener. Next, one of them asked whether we thought NASA should be privatized. None of my university students or their teacher had even considered the idea. Now a German kid from Munich was schooling us on US policy choices.

“It is more important for Germans to know what it going on in America than it is for Americans to know the same about Germany,” said one of them finally. No truer words were ever spoken.

So when I read a question like this, which is totally unaware that just the opposite is true, I have no particularly polite way to say that the question is really off base. Actually ignorant. I just spent three weeks in Spain and France. Everyone was talking about two things — Donald Trump and the Chicago Cubs.

Think for a moment about Melania Trump, our new first lady. She is from Slovenia. How many Americans actually have any concept of Slovenia? (How many know that it is not the same as Slovakia?) While my former European classmates had spent years studying geography in school, I remember learning some basics in grade school that were virtually never addressed again.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Europeans-so-ignorant-about-America

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Think about it, 620,000 soldiers died! Don’t you think the sitting president of the most American deaths could have been a better diplomat? Barring what the issues were it seems like there could have been a better way. The Union won because of money and population more than any great strategy.


Answer: The Confederates shot first. It was not an accident, not a unit that went rogue, and not short-lived. They kept it up for days. When a ship arrived to relieve the United States soldiers they were shooting at, they shot at it too.

Was there an apology? Reparations? Punishment for those who fired on Fort Sumter? None of the above.

Abraham Lincoln was bound by his oath. He came into office prepared and willing to negotiate. The traitors did not give him the chance. There was nothing else he could do.

Don't shoot at American soldiers. Ever. You will be made to regret it.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-Abraham-Lincoln-overrated


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This is an objective article, not a subjective one.

There are those who really need children? They want children and they are able to take care of them. May the desires of their hearts be granted.

A newlywed couple would normally desire children. A couple with only one or two kids may desire one more. This is a logical reason.

There are those who need children for logical reasons. There are those who need children for strange reasons. This piece is about those who need children for strange reasons.

Who are those having children for irrational reasons? Let me give you a few examples out of numerous.

A case study: Someone has had 7 or 8 boys, but they keep on having children by the same woman or second woman because they need a girl. Does he want to take that girl to his grave? This is also applicable to someone who has 7 or 8 girls, and is desperate for a male child? Who tells him that female children aren’t even better than male children?

Example 1:
One man has 5 kids through the first wife, who’s now estranged and separated from him. He married a second wife and has two kids from her. One kid is dead, one is alive. The second wife is now dead, and the man, who’s currently old, has started cohabiting with another woman (who happens to have kids through previous relationships). They now plan to have another child because they think their affair means nothing if it produces no children. And this is a man that can barely feed himself, not to mention paying his young children school fees. His older children are living on their own, but they’re not buoyant enough to assist their dad.

Example 2:
One landlady has 3 kids, and the last born is 13 year old. But because a newlywed couple packed into one of their rented apartments, and the new wife got pregnant, the landlady became jealous and got pregnant for her husband again (at an advanced age). She puts her life at risk because of inordinate jealousy.

Example 3:
One woman has 2 kids through a previous disastrous marriage. Her former husband has rejected those two kids, though they’re his. The woman later married a polygamist who already has numerous children from two women. She became the 3rd wife (and she’s a Pentecostal Christian). The new husband built a house for each of his wife, and the 3rd wife has another 2 kids for him: a boy and a girl. The 3rd wife is doing all in her power to prevent their husband from marrying the 4th wife. The husband has built another house and the 4th wife is already there, expecting a baby. Because of this the 3rd wife became jealous and got pregnant for their husband again, knowing full well that this man believes more in building houses than in paying his children’s school fees. Is this new baby needed?

Example 4:
2 female neighbors who’re extremely jealous of each other are competing with giving births. They both get 5 kids, and when one gives birth to a new baby, the other one would give birth within the next 9 months. The competition is ongoing. These women don’t have rich husbands, and they keep on blaming the federal governments for their financial woes.

Example 5:
Another woman who’s already had 6 children they’re struggling to feed, recently got pregnant again because she sensed that her husband is sleeping around. She wants to use the pregnancy and a new baby to “tie” her husband down and attract his attention. This is what some women are doing. Does this strategy work?

These are couple and cohabiters who can’t feed themselves, and they keep on giving birth to children after children after children.

They think God that created man has created what the mouth would eat. Is a fulfilling life only about eating? At the time of writing this article, close to 800 million people are seriously hungry worldwide, and about 30,000 people died of hunger on November 5, 2016 alone. Why didn’t food fly to their mouths miraculously? Superstitions have really put us in bondage.

Superstitions are one of the factors contributing to problems in Nigeria. We read about great people in the past; but we read about them because of what they achieved, not because of the children they had. 2 hundred years to this time, it won’t matter again whether you had children or not.

In some European countries, the governments take care of housing, health insurance, education and more. Yet their citizens don’t give birth anyhow. In Nigeria, you take care of all responsibilities yourself, doing so with your blood and sweat. Yet, you bear children indiscriminately.

At the end, people would blame the government for the results of their own actions. Nigerians do stupid things and blame others for it.

Some older people have children who can’t take care of them because those children aren’t financially OK.

Why do people have children they don’t need? The children they can’t take care of, with the hope of a brighter future. Years ago, people had this hope and what was the result? Population explosions with increasing poverty and social atrocities. Clearly, illusions aren’t a good thing.


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How can you tell if a person is pretending to be a soldier?

Well…

Here are dead giveaways.

They don’t know the Jargon. Scuttlebut is a water cooler and also gossip. Blouse is shirt. Trousers are pants. Cover is hat. Semper Fi is Semper Fi. You get the idea.

Over patriotism, overly nationalistic. Yes. Soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen are generally patriotic, nationalistic, and proud of America. However, they’re not verbally overtly crazy about it. Trust me, you’ll know when you see it…

F**ked up uniforms. Uniforms, when worn, are supposed to be amazing and professional and sharp. So if its all scruffy, medals and ribbons are upside down, someone’s wearing an Army medal on a Marine Corps uniform, etc, you’ll know. Sometimes, though, they’re tough to detect. Look at the video. Something just looks… Wrong… Scroll down. See, he’s got a CIB on his uniform. Now, this might be feasible… I mean, MSGT? He could have been in Army but re-enlisted, easily. He could have been in combat, gotten the CIB, etc. But look at how young he is… Kinda young for Master Sergeant…


Unique to Marines: Wearing MCCUUs off base. The MCCUU, or Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform, is the Marine Corps utility uniform. Its either in a greenish or tannish camo, and if its being worn in public and its not an emergency like a car broken down or a Marine running from a nearby base to help, something is wrong. Marines are only allowed to wear the MCCUU while on base. They can’t even wear it for the 10 minutes to get a flipping coffee at a Starbucks! An anecdote from a gas station employee, she said that if you looked out the window you could see Marines changing in their cars, out of their MCCUUs and into t shirts and jeans. Pretty much the only times: At recruiting events, at Fleet Week, on base, or in an emergency.

People are pointing out to me he has 3 CIBs! Normally 3 CIBs on its own is unique, and the space in between Vietnam and the War On Terror is something of 48 years. The most badass guy in existence, Chesty Puller (don’t bother convincing me otherwise) only had what, 34 years?

Most triple CIB recipients have earned it in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Looks kinda young for a WWII vet…

Cy Birr has pointed out to me the person, Nick Androsky in the photo does indeed have a mental disorder, which took his like in ‘14. Before that, he was a proud servicemember.

Mr. Androsky’s disorder worsened, and that was what caused him to act that way.

Now, we should still keep a sharp eye out for fakes and frauds who would do that to get free discounts and free stuff. But at the same time if someone isn’t right in the head, lets feel bad for them. They might not know what they are doing is wrong.


Source: https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-tell-if-a-soldier-is-fake


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Should I tell my husband that the daughters he loves so much don’t belong to him?

My husband loves both of his daughters a lot, but he isn't their father. Should I tell him?

I am love married for 15 years now and living happily with my husband and two daughters 14 & 13 years old.

He is not their real father and he is not aware of that.
From my college days when I was dating him, I used to have casual sex with guys around.

Please don't ask me about counts.
After marrige I became a housewife and was less social.
But this didn't change me.

I still get to meet guys when my husband was out which included his cousin,friends,laundry man, neighbours etc.
So in short I did it with multiple guys.

And I have no regrets,I still do it but less frequently.

When my daughters where 5 & 6 I got their dna tested and as expected came to know he isn't their father.

He is a good man though, but I feel if I tell him,he will leave me, and that will affect my daughters life financially.

So what should I do?



ANSWER:

I’m going to assume this is a joke post. Assuming it isn’t—big mistake on my part—here’s my answer and it’s going to be somewhat harsh.

What you did before your marriage is your business. I fooled around quite a bit before I got married, had multiple girlfriends, enjoyed life, and I don’t have a double standard where men sleeping around is okay while for women it isn’t. Women are free to do what they want and more power to them, but…

Men don’t get pregnant. You did. From other men. And your attitude since you found out has been nothing short of hypocritical. You continued having extra-marital affairs, had two children with different men, and you are using your husband as an ATM machine.

He loves his children….he doesn’t know they’re not biologically his. Have you given a thought to how he feels or how he would feel if he knew? I don’t think you have, at least, not much, according to your letter.

You care for your daughters, but don’t care enough to be faithful to your husband or at least tell him the truth. So FWIW, you owe him the truth. If he leaves you, he’s more than justified, IMO. If he doesn’t, you should be thankful and you should leave, as he is the superior parent in this situation.


Source: https://www.quora.com/My-husband-loves-both-of-his-daughters-a-lot-but-he-isnt-their-father-Should-I-tell-him

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